IT is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British freedom, which, to the open sea Of the world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath flowed, ' with pomp of waters, unwithstood,' Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary... The New-York Review - Página 4151842Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 páginas
...volume paramount, no code, No master spirit, no determined road ; But equally a want of books and men ! IT is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British...dark antiquity Hath flowed, ' with pomp of waters, unwithsUxxl,' Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands, That... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 616 páginas
...life's common way In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. It is not to be thought of that the flood Of British...sea Of the world's praise from dark antiquity Hath flow'd, " with pomp of waters, unwithstood," Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 páginas
...determined road ; But equally a want of books and men ! XIII. I WRITTEN IN LONDON, SEPTEMBER, 1802. IT is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British freedom, which, to the open sea Of tlie world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath flowed, ' with pomp of waters, unwithstood,' Roused though... | |
| 1850 - 682 páginas
...them one evening, the noble lines of Wordsworth,— full of faith in their truth :— " 'Tis not to bo thought of, that the flood Of British freedom, which...world's praise, from dark antiquity, Hath flowed with рошр of waters unwithstood ; Boused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1851 - 750 páginas
...paramount, no code, No master spirit, no determined road ; But equally a want of Books and Men ! XVI. IT is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British...salutary bands, That this most famous Stream in Bogs and Sanda Should perish ; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our Halls is hung Armoury of the... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 236 páginas
...this waste White-cliff, Albion so called, became a British Empire !" CHAPTER II. OLD ASSOCIATIONS. " It is not to be thought of that the flood Of British...antiquity, Hath flowed, ' with pomp of waters unwithstood,' Housed though it be, full often, to a mood WMch spurns the check of salutary bands— That this most... | |
| English poetry - 1853 - 552 páginas
...grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great, is passed away. WORDSWORTH. BRITISH FREEDOM. IT is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British...and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakspeare... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 páginas
...1685, — we cannot doubt in which direction society is proceeding. — MACAULAY. BRITISH FREEDOM. IT is not to be thought of that the flood Of British...Hath flowed, " with pomp of waters, unwithstood," Housed though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bauds, That this most famous... | |
| Henry Reed - 1856 - 484 páginas
...is a precious truth, that the war of our independence was a wave of what a great poet has called— "The flood Of British freedom which, to the open sea...world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath flowed."* Niebuhr's words may be applied in justification of the legendary history I have been considering; for... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 páginas
...volume paramount, no code, No master spirit, no determined road ; But equally a want of books and men ! IT is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British...and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakspeare... | |
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